You've found Matt Uyttendaele's panoramas and photosynths. Along with creating some of the software that runs this site, I really enjoy posting my personal results here. Microsoft ICE is one of the products that has come out of my lab at Microsoft Research. You can learn more about ICE and other projects by following the links on my home page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mattu/

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Hi ，sir.I am a fresh man in Photosynth from China.And i really want to know how do you take a panorama like this .It's very clear and large.Everyone i shot from app by my phone is very burry.I really want to learn your way and take great picture in my hometown.looking forward for your reply.

Neat perspective out of the window. One hint if you want the rotation to keep the buildings upright, then in ICE you need to use the orientation view. Click on the little cube icon in the top of ICE and adjust the horizon in the world to align with the center line.

Actually -- it wasn't featured before, but I've featured it now. It's the best of Sienna! Congratulations. That will mean that it should pop to the top of teh stack of all the push pins clustered in the Piazza del Campo.

Thank you for the comments.
David that is an ocellus (plural ocelli). Its another form of eye.
titanmiller, I am planning more projects in the future. This image took about 20 hours of work from start to finish so to catalog even 100 species would require a great deal of time. With my wife and son at home and a full time job it will have to remain just a hobby for now... Depth of field is an obstacle at these magnifications. It may take 100 photos at different focal planes which will be combined into a single image by the focus stacking program.

Thanks David, I have learned to do the 'Highlight' the effect is great to visit the scene with a particular vision chosen by the author. I am very happy to do Panoramic photos are an accurate reflection of reality. Now rainy days,,,,,,, cant wait to go out and do more panoramic. thank you very much.

Exposure was set for the fullest range then backed off 2/3 off a stop to boost saturation. That shutter setting is then used for the Promote with a 5 shot bracket.
Set the rig in a site where the lens will be protected from flare, in this case, an up-right beam was used to block the sun. Shots were taken at 24 degree intervals horizontally and 30 degree intervals vertically.
Using Adobe Lightroom, the color-space, exposure, and sharpness setting are fine-tuned and a series of 305 TIF files are exported.
These 305 TIF files are then run through a few tests in Photomatrix Pro to obtain the best looking “Exposure Fusion” result, and those settings are then used to batch process all of the 305 images into 61 final TIF fields for use in Microsoft ICE.
In MS ICE, the 61 images were processed via the: “File-> New Structured Panorama” pull-down, and run as a zig-zag, 360 pano with auto alignment.